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Time’s up! It’s over! Say goodbye, NaNo! How did we all do? Did we make it past the finish line? Hopefully everyone met their goals. Even if you didn’t, there is no reason to despair. You took a great step into a big scary world. That is an important step. Now what? Now, you set that manuscript aside. It doesn’t …

Terror lurks just around the corner. Soon, our homes will be invaded by ghouls and ghasts, tiny monsters, and masked figures. We will appease them with bite-sized edible sugar. But that is not the real terror, at least, not for writers. The real terror comes in realizing we have not properly planned for NaNoWriMo. 30 days, 50,000 words, and not …

By the what?? You read that correctly: by the pants! Uhm, yeah, ok, so, what does that mean? It means that you write by the seat of your pants, sans-plotting. There is no outline, no guide, no detailed character descriptions. There is only a general idea of what needs to go on the page and a burning desire to …